like fat on mutton chops. Here’s a little pie (a gem this is, both for size and quality), made in France. And what do you
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‟ ‟ opposite to me from the other corner of the coach, brushed one of his large furry cuffs across my eyes (but without hurting me), and showed
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I left her, with a sorrowful heart. She went in before my boxes were lifted to the coach-roof and shut the door. As long as I could see the house, I looked back at it from the window
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which it has pleased—shall I say Providence? —to call her.” My heart was filled so full, both by what he said and by his affecting
of letting bad things alone to take their own bad course, and a loose belief that if the world go wrong it was in some
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It is but a glimpse of the world of fashion that we want on this same miry afternoon. It is not so unlike the Court of Chancery but that we may pass
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address the Chancellor at the close of the day’s business and who can by no means be made to understand that the Chancellor is legally ignorant of his existence after making it desolate for
dressmaker takes of her physical proportions. Is a new dress, a new custom, a new singer, a new dancer, a new form of jewellery, a new dwarf or giant, a new chapel, a new anything, to be set
I put up my trembling little hand to clasp hers or to beg her pardon with what earnestness I might, but withdrew it as
I sat at the fireside. I was reading aloud, and she was listening. I had come down at nine o’clock as I always did to read the Bible to her, and was reading from St. John how
strict. She was so very good herself, I thought, that the badness of other people made her frown all her life. I felt so different from her, even making every allowance for the
requesting him to miss as many of the formal horrors as he can. Mr. Tulkinghorn glances over his spectacles and begins again lower